Wednesday, January 28, 2026

What are some of the most amazing facts about space?

 

  • It is estimated there are 400 billion stars in our galaxy.
  • The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe.
  • Voyager 1 captured the most distant photograph of Earth.
  • A spoonful of a neutron star weighs about a billion ton.
  • Neutron stars are the fastest spinning objects known in the universe.
  • A year on Venus is shorter than its day.
  • It takes 225 million years for our Sun to travel round the galaxy.
  • The Hubble telescope allows us to look back billions of years into the past.
  • Each year the moon moves 3.8 cm further from the earth.
  • About 275 million stars are born everyday.